PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Tuesday, June 6 1978

Editorial

 Logger’s sp

-Jthad everything going for it. The brightest of
blue, clear skies. The best of weather. An ex-
cellent location. Lots of parking space. Ex-
citement, variety - and no other major event
competing for the public’s attention at the same

time. .

: It was the 18th. Annual Loggers Sports event
held over the weekend of June 3rd. and 4th. at

Lions Park, in Thornhill.
“ But where were the crowds?

“ ‘Back

figures. A few hundred, perhaps?
“I¢ seems almost a case of the old story.

Everything was done. right - but somehow,

nobody seemed to notice.:
: Judging by past

in 1961 and 1962 - when the population of
Terrace and Thornhill was but a fraction of what
it ig, today, close to three thousand persons
turned out. This year (and last year) no one
wanted to hazard a guess at the low attendance

‘are idle over the weekend. One can see perhaps

Hiteups of the Annual
Loggers Sports fairs, back in 1973 the even was
the main attraction of the Summer - with traffic
tie-ups as cars choked: the approaches to the
park, filled with excited spectators anxious to

But, in any.case, itis clearly evident, that after
the attendance of approximately three thousand
during the early sixties, the Loggers Sports Fair
in the Terrace and Thornhill district has never
reached the figures one might expect. , Why?

The sponsors certainly are not to be faulted,
Lots of hard - sometimes, “dirty’’ - work is
cheerfully undertaken, Setting up the equipment -

~ and getting the grounds ready is ‘Mans’ Work” -

and hard work. . Invitations, advertising,
registration, arranging the prizes, judging, - all

this has to be done - and has been done - cheer-.
fully, year after year, = et

Yet it ig doubtful if last weekend’s Loggers
Sports Fair even covered expenses,

One suggestion has been made. School busses -
adozen or more lined up, neatly, along highway
16 as one passes through Terrace. Could
arrangements be somehow made for them to be
laid on to provide free transportation for people
and the area and the outlying districts to attend
the Loggers Sports fair?

_ And how about CN “VIA Rail” excursions
from both east and west, with busses to meet the

trains? . ' a
Logging has traditionally been considered one
of the most colourful, dangerous - and thus
thrilling lifestyles because of its. hazardous
nature, appealing to the imagination of both
young and old,
_ This community y done
for mixing metaphors) a “gold. mine”’ in its
Loggers Sports fair, - all it needs is to know how
to exploit it.

May we we suggest just a few more ideas the
committee might consider to help promote next
years’ event: - Ce .
Selling ‘Wooden Nickels” commemorating
the event, at a dollar each (Inflation, of couse,
but they could be the size of silyer dollars!) They
could be advertised “‘Good for face value (5
cents) at any store in town during the event.)

Or how ahout selling “plugged nickels" -
facsimile nickels with holes in them with wooden
plugs inserted? . _
Arranging with Comox Air Base (or DND) for
a Fly Past of Air Force Jets - contrasting the new
with the old? — .
And why hot arrange with major logging

has (if we may be pardoned’

boat’?

turers to display their latest

equipment. manufac C but
i i - pot only from Canada,
logging ecu en, India and other

the U,5., hgh our
‘s could be arranged thro
Canadian Trade embassies, and federal

rseas. ey
a Canada (c"Canada’s Air Line”) could be

~thed to offer special package tours and
fhahts. che ators and contestants from

da and overseas. ...
nthe potential and the possibilities appear

irti ited. a
virtually ace and Kitimat and district -
Thornhill and the Lions have something really
big going for.them, if only the public could get

ind and support it. . .
been tn like having a Tiger by the tail...or
should we say, - a Lion??

get there.

%

*Men, Muscles, and Mighty deeds - plus music - ail these,

-and bright sunshine and fine weather were there, at the -

‘een
wat

18th. Annual Loggers Festival at Lions Park, Thorohill,
Saturday any... but where were the crowds? Left te

Right: Andy Lambert during the underhand chop, Nick
Palagian, throwing the axe, Terrace Pipe.and Drum,

hak SR é ie

piping and drumming, and Jack Brownjohn doing a
standing block chop.

Pebe tag
dienes

TODAY IN HISTORY

ber

”

‘Salmonid hatchery

at Bella Goola

_» POWELL RIVER - One of
‘Whe firat major chum salmon
tatcherles in the Salmonid
Enhancement Program for
ritish Columbia is to be
ifeated on the Bella Coola

ver system, This an-
nouncement was madé by
Jack Pearsall, Liberal
‘Member of Parliament for
‘Ggast Chilcotin, on behalf of
‘Fisheries Minister Romeo
LeBlanc, .
‘<The hatchery to be con-
‘StFucted at Sncotli Creek and
“four sites oh the Bella Coola
‘River tributaries, would be
dimilar to the hatcheries
used in Japan to successfully
‘énhance shum salmon
Stocks, The Japanese syle of
batchery, which differs in
fame respects from the
‘dgua]’ North American
‘hatchery, is used to raise
ara ea
a o evelopment,
the chums migrate to’ cea.
4mmediately after hatching,
hit in the Japanese hat-
:ehery, the chum fry are fed
‘for thirty days before
‘release. This system In-
‘creases the young to adult
survival rate, Part of a $150
million five-year program to
enhance alisalmonids on the
west coaat, these hatchery
facilities will total $1,050,000

in capital costs.Calls for
tenders for work on this
project will be made by the
Pacific Region of the
Fisheries ‘and Marine Ser-
vice.

The first phase of the
construction pregram will
commence in 1978-79 at
Snoatli Creek site. The
second phase of the con-
struction program com-
mencing In 1979-80 will
consist of constructing
rearing ponds for two miilion
chum fry; a surface water
supply system; diversion
fence and holding ponds at
each of the following sites -
Sallompt River, Fish Creek,
Thoresen Creek and Bella
Coola Slough. At full
capacity the 7,200,000 chum
fry produced from the
hateheries shoud result. in
about 100,800 adult chum
salmon being harvested by
the commercial fishery.

Mr..Pearsall remarked in
making the announcement
that the impact on both the
construction industry im:
mediately and the har-
vesting and processing
sectors of the commercial
fishery shortly would be a
major boon to employment
in the area,

Lawyers to face
advertising problem

The controversy over
whether lawyers should be
permitted to advertise will
come before the annual
meeting of the B.C. legal
profession in Penticton June
7-8.

A resolution urging the
Law Society of B.C. to enact
rules to permit lawyers to
“inform the public in a
dignifled fashion’’ about
their practice, . their
specialties and their feea has
been submitted by a group of
Vancouver lawyers,

The advertising issue is
one of several timely topica
that lawyers will debate
during the annual meetings

of the B.C, Branch of the -

Canadian Bar Association
and of the Law Soclety of
B.¢, at the Peach Bowl
Convention Centre in Pen-
licton.

_ Other topics will include a
resoluilon urging the

‘“‘decriminalization’’ o
marijuana-proposing that
simple ~ possession of
marijuana for one’s own ue
should not be a criminal
offence but that penalties for
trafficking for profit should
be retained, —

Lawyers will also discuss
the provinclal government's’
proposed compulsory héeroin
treatment program, . Fears

* ,havebeen expreased that the
program will ignore fun-
damental rights of -In-
dividuals by detaining
people without warrant or
bail and without trial.

Other resolutions deal with
efforts to improve the public
image of lawyers and a
request that a “white paper”
be published by the Law
Society on any rules
proposed on advertising,
specialization and com-

petency.

- By THE CANADIAN PRESS
t i) dune 6, 1978

movie ‘opened in Camden,
NJ.

journalist and only son of Sir
Winston, died.

| by Jim Smith - |

A Dirty Word.

Unemployment has al-
ways beena dirty word. Late-
ly, though, it’s showing signs
of becoming something even

worse: aboring word. There’s.

nothing like 12 months’ of
daily newspaper headlines to
make most of us lose inter-
est in an issue.

Actually, unemployment
has not been treated fairly.
We have, without exception,
ignored the desirable effects
of unemployment. For in-
stance, unemployment has
created many new jobs in Ot-
tawa where bureaucrats must
tabulate the unemployment
rate and publish booklets

about government programs’

which purport to fight the
menace. Unemployment
creates work for CanadaMan-
power personnel, And it cre-

ates work for newspaper re-°

porters, If we didn’t have un-
employment, we conceivably
could have more people out
of work. .. .

If you think that's ridicu-
lous reasoning, you haven't
encountered the most recent
proposition from organized
labour, More and more un-
ions have studied the employ-
ment problem and reached
the same conclusion: they
will fight the shortage ofjobs
by reducing the work week

for those individuals fortu-—

nate enough to be holding
down jobs. ,

So. far, so good. In fact,
the willingness of workers to
spread the discomfort equal-

ly over their ranks would ap-

pear to conform to the high-
est principles of unionism.
But all is not as it appears,
To wit; the union propo-
sal is not exactly to spread
out the available work over
more workers. Rather, the

union seesevery worker, put-—

‘on...

ting in fewer hours for she
saine gross pay! Or, to put it
another way, the employer is
expected to pay a whole lot
more for workers.
That isn't the best way
to cure unemployment. The
thinkers who dreamed up
this scheme apparently over-
looked the one fundamental
rule of economics: when the
price .of something goes up,
the demand for that thing
goes down. In other words,
if employers are expected
to pay their workers higher
hourly wages, they will em-
ploy even fewer workers.
Putting.it all together,
then, the union proposal
would lead to more unem-
ployment rather than help-

ing out the unfortunates who *

are still looking for jobs.
But, then again, organized
labour has shown a specta-
cular lack of understanding
of existing economic condi-
tions, All across Canada at
this very instant, for example,
teachers are conducting
strikes or the more insidious
“work to rule” campaigns,
blithely ignoring, the fact
that the most pressing issue
in education today is howto
get rid of the surplus staff.
The inside Post Office work-
ers have demanded fringe
benefits totatling slightly

_more than $1 billion on their

next contract! And or and
‘lot '
Unemployment is a nasty
business. Unfortunately, it
appears that certain social
groups are exploiting the is-
sue and unemployment's vic-
tims, It’s time to play fair
with unemployment..

“Think small" is an editorial
message from the Canadian
Federation of independent

* Business®

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1933—The first drive-in ‘* - 1968-—Randolph Churehill, °

-. French-Canadian Press

Following is a selection of
editorials 'on current topics
translated by The Canadian
Press from the French-lan-
guage press of Canada,

Montreal-Matin; While
participating in a panel
discussion on national,
security during a recent

' Quebec Bar Association

conference, the
distinguished American
journalist Joseph Kraft said.

something to this effect:
Politicians do not win pop-
ularity contests by standing
up for individual freedoms _
over national security, On
the contrary, they count on
public indifference.
However, the Quebec Bar
devoted a morning workshop
to this. question while the
Quebec Human Rights
League dedicated the
weekend to a conference
entitled Police and Liberty.

The concept of national
security, said -Kraft, fluc-
tuates at the merey of the
political situation in the
country, In reflecting, one
finds this highly logical but
very ‘disquieting, Becawe,
finally, whois going to define
state security, ...?

- The observers who partici-

pated in this workshop at the
bar conference may have
bean surprised that the
lawyers did not raise more
quickly a question which
normally should -have been
their main concern in this

domain: the gradual
movement of federal
legislation towards 4

“dejudiciarization” of state
powers. From a democratic
perspective and in respect to

af law, it would be
desirable, indeed, that civil
servants and police (as in the
case of electronic sur-
veillance) be controlled by
the judiciary, which would
not give way arbitrarily,
Parllament could define the
principles of natlonal secur-
ity: the police ‘and civil ser-
vanta apply them, whereas
the courts would evaluate
whether the powers had been
properly exercised.

Now one [a far from such a
system. The notion of
national security, left to the
federal cabinet, gives it the

choice to refuse citizenship -

without offictal reason. The
Federal Court Act allows a
minister, on presentation of
anaftidavit, to forbid a court
to ust a document which the

minister may feel is in-
jurious to Canadian inter-
national. relations or to
federalprovincial relations.
The Official Secrets Act

“could itself be invoked, in

relation to espionage, to
convict an individual without:
having proven that the ac-
cused is guilty of a certain
accusation. It suffices to
base it on circumstances or
on the character of the ac-
cused

In opening the Human
Rights League conference,
James Petras, professor of
political sociclogy at New
York University, said the
risk of encroachment on civil
liberties growa larger in
times of economic crisis and
in tense political situations. |

‘The times that we live in and

government panic does not
help to reassure us.—Mare
Laurendeau (May 29)

. . (May 28)

Trols-Rivieres Le
Nouvelliste: The Federation
des Francophones hors
Quebec {FFHQ) has just
published another shock-
document entitled Two
Weights, Two Measures,
which. makes a comparison. .
between the situation of
francophones outside
Quebec and anglophones in
Quebec...

In presenting their
document, the directors of
the federation specified that
in no way do they want to
support a movement to
restrict the rights of anglo-
phones, but they want to in-
dicate the road they have to
travel in their own case.
Moreover, it is to be noted
that the document in
question does not propose a
plan of action with respect to
one or the other minority. ...

The FFHQ document had
been prepared to coincide
with the federal election that
should have been held at the

of the summer,
Trudeau’s decision ta delay
the general election took
away much of the impact of
thin document which could
have become a very im-
portant part of the election
campaign, in the perspective
of the national unity debate,
dear to.the Liberals.

For the moment, the

FFHQ study will not fail to

serve the intereats of the
Parti Quebecois government
its referendum . legislation,

No one can.argue that
Quebec treats its minority

infinitely better than all the
other provinces, and that
despite Law 101, 50 decried
in English Canada. The
federation’s document
contains absolutely in-
disputable evidence.

In other respects, to be
realistic, a comparison of the
kind reserved for the two
minorities must necessarily
take account of the historical
context,

It is quite different to leave
to someone the place which
he occupies than to give
someone the place that he
deserves.

Since the Conquest, the
anglophones of Quebec held
‘political and economic
power, Since then, little by

little, the francophone
majority has succeeded in
taking back political power
andat least partial economic
power. However, the anglo-
phone minority intend to
defend these acquired rights
and net solely the privileges
given them by the ‘fran-
cophone majority.

The position of the franco-
Phones outside Quebec is not
the same, They have never
actually held political and
economic power. Today,
no ean more
legitimate than that they
want to claim their fair
share. It is high time that it
is granted to them.—Sylvio
Sain-Amant (May 27)

3d CN trains
off B.C. track

SMITHERS, B.C, (CP) -
The third Canadian National
Railways freight train to
derai] in north-central
British Columbia within
three days left the tracks
Friday near Endako, 149
kilometres southeast of here,
utara

ere 10 es int
derallment of 26 grain care
He said track damage was
expec the rail line was
0 lea
late Friday, red by

Cause of the accident was

vestigation,

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said earlier that expansion of
Tails caused by het weather
rusulted in derailments
Wednesday and Thursday, —

Four cars of a CNR freight
train derailed Trdg at
Telkwa, about 11 kilometres
east of here, destroying
about 225 metres of track. At
New Hazelton, about 190
Kilometres west of here, 10
cars of an §0-car CNR freight
train derailed Wednesday.

No injuries were reported
in elther incident. ?

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